Implementing knowledgeable applications benefits from the ability to model problems on the knowledge level. In practice, this usually means engagement with the logical description of problems. However, when (crisp) logic ...

This thesis adds to research on construction innovation through exploring and describing knowledge interaction between product manufacturers and research organizations. A few publications deals with manufacturers’ innovation ...

Knowledge is an essential asset to companies in modern society. Knowledge is embedded in people, and it is nurtured and created through experience. Companies have taken actions to manage knowledge from such perspectives ...

Knowledge management has aroused interest among many academics and practitioners for several decades now. Many of the academic studies have concentrated on development of the field’s central concepts, and that work also ...

This thesis explores a new type of gain medium for ﬁber lasers and ampliﬁers, active tapered double-clad ﬁbers (TDCF), and describes their distinct properties, design, and applications. The TDCF technology is based on ...

Modern industrial processes are increasingly complex and managed with limited personnel resources. In order to ease the task of process management new networked communication and monitoring technologies have been developed ...

A very important component of cells is the cell membrane separating the contents of a cell from the outside world. The cell membrane contains membrane proteins which, for example, regulate permeation of molecules through ...

A scalar light field is any stationary monochromatic wave in the visible spectrum which propagates in an isotropic, homogeneous, non-dispersive and non-magnetic medium and thus obeys the Helmholtz wave equation. This thesis ...

Model-Driven Engineering (MDE) is a software development paradigm that is proposed to increase the efficiency of software development. To realize this goal, the design of the software application and the design-time decisions ...

If an estimation problem can be modeled with linear equations and normal distributed noise, it has closed form solutions that can be computed efficiently. However, applicability of linear models is limited and when linear ...

This thesis is dedicated to demosaicing and deblurring problems in digital image processing and their solution exploiting signal adaptive filtering. In particular, we use filtering based on the local polynomial approximation ...

Partly due to the increase in global competition, the nature of manufacturing paradigms in Europe has been undergoing continuous change in recent decades. Pressures from the market are forcing companies to evolve into new ...

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a medical imaging method used mainly for imaging soft tissue, such as the brain. It has various advantages, such as the noninvasive and nonionizing technique used; high contrast and ...

The objective of this dissertation is to clarify the notion of ‘management accounting systems usefulness’ in its organizational context at the interface of sales and procurement. This notion is often used both by academics ...

The ability to learn and create new knowledge is an essential factor in creating an innovative working environment. However, concepts related to learning and knowledge creation are often very abstract in nature. Therefore, ...

No company can survive alone and instead of single companies competing, it is in fact networks of companies that compete with each other. Competitiveness can be enhanced, for example by lowering costs and ensuring the ...